Pith Number

pith:FMEKS2FV

pith:2014:FMEKS2FVZRTXEVIB37YTXJ3T4U

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Conway's game of life is a near-critical metastable state in the multiverse of cellular automata

Osame Kinouchi, Sandro Martinelli Reia

arxiv:1407.1006 v1 · 2014-07-03 · cond-mat.stat-mech · nlin.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FMEKS2FVZRTXEVIB37YTXJ3T4U}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:48:24.954955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b08a968b5cc67725501dff13ba773e53a4b01099784feea52af56a36277b580

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.1006 · arxiv_version: 1407.1006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.1006 · pith_short_12: FMEKS2FVZRTX · pith_short_16: FMEKS2FVZRTXEVIB · pith_short_8: FMEKS2FV

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FMEKS2FVZRTXEVIB37YTXJ3T4U \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 2b08a968b5cc67725501dff13ba773e53a4b01099784feea52af56a36277b580

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce83b0bd6e39c49673c70b793d15430f0b956edc40e66ccd087cfd5552af055b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.CG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-03T18:35:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1bde5243cf8bdd0cc3810727508465d35f552f226ccda306650caa894143a09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.1006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}